Vueling-Clickair Pilot Seniority Lists
Regarding the Vueling-Clickair merger and the merging of the Seniority lists.
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I understand that the Administrative Seniority List ( Date of the signing of contract by pilot and management ) is the one that is going to be used.
For the merger all Vueling and Clickair pilots.
Therefore most of the Vueling pilots will be on the top of the new seniority.
From sources fairly close to the merger. One of the reasons that the merger discussions have gone on so long is that Lara did not want to give up everything to Iberia. Maintaining Vuelings identity.The merging of the pilots may have been part of this.
( Nefinsa )Clickair has demonstrated antiquated dictatorial management style in the past.
For example pilots flying 10 days straight and afraid to speak up or they will be fired, this is not safe. Certain pressure on pilots not to AOG aircraft.
Iberia needs to be distanced from the new Vueling CLickair company.
If Iberia is seen to be too close to the new Vueling-Click then there would be problems with the Madrid base.
The Vueling name is going to be used. Legally that could be part of the basis for the pilots maintaining their status and seniority
In the event of a legal fight the administrative date of one's signing contract is valid in Spain.Should the new company not respect the administrativev dates or date of contract signing then the new company Vueling-Click would be obliged to payout to invalidate the original contract signing date. The payout to Vueling pilots would be a lot of Euros. For this reason the new Vueling will
respect
While Vueling started in 2004 the pilots
The Vueling pilots have the Seniority list definitions in their Yellow Book.